I ‘m frequently amazed by some of the sheer numbers associated with the iPhone. Today ‘s example comes from App Shopper and their report on app approvals last week including the ‘avalanche ‘ of approvals last Friday.
At the end of last week we saw a massive number of App approvals on the iTunes App Store. This resulted in a over 1300 apps (of which over 300 were games) appearing in one day alone. We had heard Apple had had quite a back log of approvals, so hopefully, they have cleared the queue for now.
I learned of the report via a Gizmodo post about it “ and they offered up some nice comparison numbers:
That’s like if the entire Blackberry App World catalog were published in just one day. 1400 is more than double the number of games currently on the PS3 (557) and just a tad short of the number of titles in the PS2’s library (somewhere around 1,900).
I know, I know “ we could insert any number of jokes here about how probably 1,300 out of the 1,394 approved that day involved rude body noises, bikini girls, and Werewolf reminders. But the truth is there are likely a lot of good quality apps of all kinds in amongst there as well “ and that huge number is just a reminder of the massive developer interest in the iPhone platform, despite all the App Store screw-ups we all talk about.
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